Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
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As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.
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Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet.
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Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
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I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
